How to read from console LPCWSTR?

Question

C++ / C#

There is a task:

Enter the directory in the console. Print the names of all txt files in the .

Visual Studio 2012.
For the sake of one coursework, I don’t want to install Boost. Means remains winapi.
I found how to get a list of files, but I can’t correctly enter the directory from the console
and can’t read it. FindFirstFile requires an LPCWSTR as the path to the file,
and you can't enter a string of this type from the console.
Tell me what to do or give a link to a guide where it is shown.

Answer 1

If on pure WinAPI, then you must first get the console encoding (GetConsoleCP) (in Russian Windows it is usually 866 or 1251), read the string into a regular PSTR, and then convert it to PWSTR using WideCharToMultiByte. The console encoding is needed to pass it to WideCharToMultiByte.
wcin does it all by itself.

Answer 2

wcin